IT Specialist (Principal IT Solutions Engineer)

Small Business Administration; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Small Business Administration in Washington, DC seeks a senior non-supervisory IT authority responsible for enterprise build, integration, and operational engineering across SBA's complex network, systems, cloud, and platform solutions.

The role focuses on designing, integrating, automating, and sustaining enterprise IT architectures in a Federal cybersecurity context, with emphasis on AI-enabled operations and multi-cloud strategies.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience at GS-14 level in IT leadership for AI-enabled, multi-cloud, zero-trust solutions.
• Experience developing engineering standards and automated workload orchestration across cloud environments.
• Experience designing AI-driven monitoring, analytics, and identity-centric access controls per Federal cybersecurity requirements.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Customer Service

Decision Making

Information Management

Interpersonal Skills

Oral Communication

Problem Solving

Reasoning

Teamwork

Technical Competence

Job description

This position is located in the Small Business Administration, Office of the Chief Information Officer in Washington, D.C. This position is the agency's senior non-supervisory authority for enterprise build, integration, and operational engineering, responsible for how SBA's most complex network, systems, cloud, and platform solutions are engineered, integrated, automated, and sustained.

MINIMUM QUALICATIONS:

To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must show that you have the required IT-related experience for the grade level to which your are applying: GS-15,

Required Competencies:

• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Decision Making - Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Information Management - Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information; organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
• Interpersonal Skills - Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations
• Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and respond appropriately.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
• Reasoning - Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Teamwork - Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.
• Technical Competence - Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
• AND GS-15: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector: serving as a senior engineer or technical authority responsible for designing, developing, and implementing advanced information technology solutions that integrate AI-enabled operations, multi-cloud computing, and zero trust security principles; AND developing new engineering approaches, standards, or methods for automated workload orchestration across multiple cloud environments; AND designing frameworks for AI-driven monitoring, analytics, and identity-centric access controls aligned with Federal cybersecurity requirements.

These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume. There is no education substitution for this grade level. If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site: Competency-Based Qualification Standard for the Information Technology Management Series, 2210 Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Generally, time in Non-Pay status as a federal employee is not creditable towards the specialized experienc